In politics it is necessary either to betray one's country of the electorate. I prefer to betray the electorate.
– Charles De Gaulle
In politics stupidity is not a handicap.
– Napoleon Bonaparte
In politics you must always keep running with the pack. The moment that you falter and they sense that you are injured, the rest will turn on you like wolves.
– R. A. Butler
In politics, absurdity is not a handicap.
In politics, being ridiculous is more damaging than being extreme.
– Roy Hattersley
In religion and politics people's beliefs and convictions are in almost every case gotten at second-hand, and without examination, from authorities who have not themselves examined the questions at issue but have taken them at second-hand from other non-examiners, whose opinions about them were not worth a brass farthing.
– Mark Twain
In religion and politics, people's beliefs and convictions are in almost every case gotten at second hand, and without examination.
In the modern world, in which thousands of people are dying every hour as a consequence of politics, no writing anywhere can begin to be credible unless it is informed by political awareness and principles. Writers who have neither product utopian trash.
– John Berger
It is a curious fact that when we get sick we want an uncommon doctor... When we get into a war, we dreadfully want an uncommon admiral and an uncommon general. Only when we get into politics are we content with the common man.
– Herbert Clark Hoover
It is not possible to have a politics-free organization. The desire for power and control is part of the human nature. Successful business leaders know how to leverage organizational politics by setting performance-oriented instead of resources-oriented political rewards.
– Med Jones
Jokes of the proper kind, properly told, can do more to enlighten questions of politics, philosophy, and literature than any number of dull arguments.
– Isaac Asimov
La politique est l'art d'empcher les gens de se mler de ce qui les regarde. (Politics is the art of preventing people from sticking their noses in things that are properly their business.
– Paul Valery
Life is a corrupting process from the time a child learns to play his mother off against his father in the politics of when to go to bed he who fears corruption fears life.
– Saul David Alinsky
My father said, 'Politics asks the question Is it expedient Vanity asks Is it popular But conscience asks Is it right'
– Dexter Scott King
My final warning to you is always pay for your own drinks. All the scandals in the world of politics today have their cause in the despicable habit of swallowing free drinks.
– Y. Yakigawa
No science is immune to the infection of politics and the corruption of power.
– Jacob Bronowski
Nothing is so admirable in politics as a short memory.
– John Kenneth Galbraith
Objective journalism is one of the main reasons American politics has been allowed to be so corrupt for so long.
– Hunter S. Thompson
One of the penalties for refusing to participate in politics is that you end up being governed by your inferiors.
– Plato
Politics are usually the executive expression of human immaturity.
– Vera Brittaiin
Politics didn't lead me to working people. Working people led me into politics.
– Barack Obama
Politics doesn't make strange bedfellows--marriage does.
– Groucho Marx
Politics has got so expensive that it takes lots of money to even get beat with.
– Will Rogers
Politics has less to do with where you live than where your heart is.
– Margaret Cho
Politics is about the control of a limited number of resources by a limited number of people who think that number is too many
– Gary Holder-Winfield
